Sarah Anderson is an associate professor at the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She studies how the public and politics influences policy with work published in such journals as Legislative Studies Quarterly and Public Administration Review. Before receiving her PhD in political science from Stanford University, she worked as legislative assistant for a US member of Congress. Anderson also collaborated with Daniel Butler and Laurel Harbridge-Yong in his Negotiating Agreement in Congress (NAC) research grant project "Beyond Ideological Disagreement: Obstacles to Compromise."